{"id":140819,"date":"2026-03-17T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140819\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:36:07","slug":"man-killed-after-tree-falls-in-newtown-square-pennsylvania-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140819\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after tree falls in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed when a tree fell on him after storms swept across the Philadelphia region Monday night, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened Tuesday on the 300 block of Earles Lane in Newtown Square, Delaware County.<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead and a medical examiner was called out to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/pa-power-outages-philadelphia-peco-ppl-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strong to severe storms crossed the area on Monday night<\/a> with downpours and high winds, toppling trees and causing power outages.<\/p>\n<p>The Philly area is seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-weather-cold-st-patricks-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wind gusts around 30 mph<\/a> Tuesday, according to our NEXT Weather team \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.caloes.ca.gov\/trees-can-still-be-hazardous-following-severe-storms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high winds combined with wet ground can cause trees to fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed when a tree fell on him after storms swept across the Philadelphia region Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212,64545,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-140819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-delaware-county","tag-newtown-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}